Does ‘The Counselor’ have the best cast of any 2013 movie?

Screenwriter: acclaimed novelist Cormac McCarthy tries his hand at feature film screenwriting for the first time (he previously adapted one of his plays for a TV movie, and has written at least three other unproduced screenplays), and from an original idea

Javier Bardem keeps his “wild hair in Cormac McCarthy movies” streak going while Michael Fassbender is just the definition of dapper in this still from ‘The Counselor’

Do you really need any more? Well,The Counselor is set to open on Oct. 25, Fassbender has the lead as the titular lawyer who gets caught up with shady characters and sinister situations when he becomes involved with drug trafficking on the U.S./Mexico border.

Let’s just take a look at the first trailer, shall we?

Married Spanish couple Bardem and Cruz have prior connections to McCarthy: Bardem co-starred in and won an Oscar for No Country for Old Men, based on a McCarthy novel; and Cruz had her second U.S. role in All the Pretty Horses, adapted from McCarthy’s National Book Award winning book of the same name. Also, Fassbender previously worked with director Scott on last year’s Prometheus, and, of course, Pitt had his breakthrough back in 1991 in Scott‘s Thelma & Louise.